Ok, I'm up late and hurting. The Tylenol with codeine isn't helping. Well, maybe I can take 3, but that puts me at 900 for Tylenol at once.
I take trazadone so there is a warning with Tramadol, a serotonin issue. But I don't know if that is a better choice.
I feel abnormal for thinking I need pain meds at nearly 4 weeks, the Tylenol with codeine messed up my Tylenol schedule. I just don't know what else to ask for. Oxycodone helped more, when I was home abs took it regularly, I rested better and did more. So what to step down to.
Oh wait, I remember
@Josephine you said you took pain meds for 4 weeks, so I'm not an outlier? And
@dogchick said something the same too
I wish there was a way to deal with the opioid crisis (I'm faced with it with population I work with) but be able to ask for pain meds and not feel stressed and defensive that they'll think I'm drug seeking.
I see the OS on Thursday again to check the infection.
The pain is disheartening. The first two weeks I was well medicated. Most issues seem caused by PT, that I'm done with.
Now it's sharp at W RF1 across RF2, worst than last week (greater trochanter) walking is really painful across that area, and I'm doing even less.
But there's also a new sharp pain even when sitting there, primarily W RF2, and while walking or sitting I hurt from RF1 W-Z, and RF1 A-C.
When I walk the psoas is burning, sharp, deep, up into my groin crease, but the hot spot is a little lower, like 3 fingers down. So from RF3 W-Z, RF2 A-C. It ACHES when I sit.
I ice a lot. Rubbing alcohol mixed ones stay the coldest the longest, but the bags keep leaking. The gel bags last about 15 minutes. Maybe I need to buy really good zipper bags, and i need them smaller than the recipe here. I want quart size so I can more easily drape them in two adjacent spots.
I have frequent knife like pain just straight down from the incision, I keep thinking it is the incision, like I've stretched it too far, pulling on the stitches, but the incision doesn't go that far.
I started on Keflex, 4 x a day. The incision is just wet all the time. I'm battling skin yeast issues, GA humidity and heat. The skin on skin.
And I have a bladder infection, the Keflex should help that too.
On top of it, I talked to my licensure supervisor about my lack of pay, she talked to the director, there are only 4 of us. And she wanted to meet with me and again it's all my fault, my spreed sheets have errors, but they don't tell me that month so I can correct them, I was told not to bother the director's daughter who receives the info and knows the errors. And I am avoidance of conflict. They don't get or appreciate I took care of clients a week after surgery. There's no one else to pick up my case load.
And now I'm really whining, I'm sorry. I'm going to quit, well the job.
And I'm so upset with the anesthesiologist. I was so clear on what I wanted, to see the OR, to see all the people in the room, to know I was having a spinal, to see the space suit garb, to be minimally under with the spinal. He said ok to all that, but he put me under too deep. I've had nightmares every night.
I need to get his name and the meds he used. I clearly said no Versed, but that's what this feels like. I get that most people are great with going to sleep and waking up with it done. I don't like that we don't get to hire an anesthesiologist or even meet them until we're in gowns with IVs, even though they get paid with my money, and they do a very important job.
I'm really upset again.
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